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Oak FM - Loughborough's Local Radio Station

Meeting Oak FM, Loughborough's local radio station.

Appeal for More Funding for Rainbows

MP Andy Reed requests more funding from government for hospices like Rainbows.

How to Automatically Post Updates from a non-RSS Webpage to Twitter


I wanted to send new events from my Loughborough website's local events page to Twitter and Facebook, but the page has (currently) no RSS feed. I solved this as shown below, and it seems to work quite nicely.
The eventas it appears on thebestofloughboro

Searches on Our Website - Jan 2009


Always interesting to see what people are searching for when they use the Google search bar on the Loughborough site; last month some of the searches were for:

health spas, aromatherapy, baby products, builder, builders, burleigh hotel, caterer, clea

Snow, Snow, Glorious Snow

02 February 2009 09:55

Snow closes most schools in Leicestershire

Great News For Loughborough - £16m from the Government


It's just been announced that the scheme to regenerate and improve Loughborough town centre has moved a step nearer to reality, and has been granted "Programme Entry" status, meaning the Government is expecting to fund the project - to the tune of £16 m

Getting Your Car Fixed - The Easy Way


Just wanted to give a shout to new business owner Matt Fisher of M J Fisher Mobile Vehicle Technician who impressed me when I met him with his attitude and honesty.

He's embraced what thebestof is all about and already generated some excellent testim

Happy Diwali

28 October 2008 11:03


Today is Diwali, the Festival of Light, or "New Year's Eve" if you're a Hindu like Mrs Loughborough. Normally we'd go to Leicester for the celebrations but Mrs L's not keen this year (too cold, too busy) so we'll light up the house with tea-lights and j

East Midlands Children's Food Festival


Recently went with a group of Yr 4's to the East Mids Children's Food Festival, an excellent educational day for primary school kids organised by local home economist Teresa Bovey.

We had a tractor ride, learned how to make pasta from scratch, found

Funky Monkeys

09 October 2008 15:09


I notice Funky Monkeys children's indoor play centre has opened in Loughborough - a long-overdue facility I think. I must get my two kids in there for a session. Nice to see new businesses opening up in town - good luck to them.

Well done to The Rush